"O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself
a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams."
- Hamlet
Act II scene ii

31 July 2017

Another

Well slap me down with a feather! It has happened again. Another of my photographs has been picked as the "photo of the week" over on the geograph website. This is the third success I have had in six weeks and I am as pleased as punch about it. This time there were 4705 eligible images so to be the photographer behind the winning picture is a most glorious accolade.

I took the winning picture on the edge of Hathersage Moor on the evening of July 17th. As I approached the old sheepfold north of Over Owler Tor, I noticed a small herd of cattle heading towards a group of trees that overlook the Hope Valley.

One or two of them looked directly at me and mooed at full blast as if to say - hey you get offa my cloud!. As I approached the trees where a small farm once stood in days gone by, I noticed that one of the vociferous beasts was using an overhanging limb to scratch his hide. It is clearly a place that these semi-wild bullocks visit regularly.

I took four or five pictures all backlit by the diminishing sunlight as summer insects buzzed around the scratching creature, But this was the one that I submitted to geograph and the one that was selected as the winner for Week 29:-

PS: I clicked on the photo, hoping it would enlarge, as pictures do on many blogs, including my own. But I found that is not the case on yours. It would make looking at your photos even better, so maybe you want to change your settings?

I deliberately posted a "snipped" image so that I could make it bigger in the post than usual. When we do this, it means that no further enlargement is possible. But now I am going to add an enlargeable image.

Congratulations again! That definitely conveys a kind of summertime bliss. I love all the little flying bugs.. We get that same effect in our back garden when the evening light hits in the right way, and it's very hard to capture with a camera. So well done you!

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